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Weekly Readings: Joining the Amish

A German entrepreneur expresses fear in his growing dependence on Google via an open letter. Among many frustrations, Mathias Döpfner writes:

"At the moment Google has a 91.2 percent search-engine market share in Germany. In this case, the statement 'if you don’t like Google, you can remove yourself from their listings and go elsewhere' is about as realistic as recommending to an opponent of nuclear power that he just stop using electricity. He simply cannot do this in real life – unless he wants to join the Amish."